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What's the one job you would never do?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Worked tech support for a major company that no longer builds their computers in Ireland. After the hell from the customers, junior supervisors, supervisors, junior managers and managers I would rather kill myself than go back to tech support.

    The reason I left that job? I REALLY wanted to kill myself! And was due to the stress of the job. Never again!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭honeygirl


    I would hate to be a counsellor, have enough ****ing problems of my own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭LeonardNelson


    A lawyer.

    In a way that you have to lie to save your client.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    After many years of effectively managing my own time, I would hate to be back in a scenario where I was "tied" to a workspace, either answering the phone or dealing directly with people all day. This would be compounded further by having to stand, i.e. shop-work of some sort.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    An artificial sperm collector on a stud/farm. Basically **** bulls or horses off and collecting the jizz.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭jaffusmax


    Chicken Sexer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    An artificial sperm collector on a stud/farm. Basically **** bulls or horses off and collecting the jizz.

    My father and I were doing some renovation work on a pig-farm many moons ago, and there was a girl working there on some sort of practical experience thing from agricultural college. One of her duties at this particular time of year was to, shall we say, assist the boar in performing his boarly duties. I can still picture it, the two great creatures scuffling like Sumo wrestlers, and the poor child trying to lay hould of pig-willie and direct it "home"! :pac::pac::pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Boil Tooth opertender.


  • Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Priest. I do not think I could live with myself - or sleep at night - if my living was made from selling lies to children.

    Some of the jobs listed on here so far would not bother me (working in a morgue for example) or I think I would positively enjoy (working on a farm for example).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭brandon_flowers


    Rim job.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Anything that involves painting - be it walls, ceilings, fencing, sheds, whatever...

    Loathe it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    I would never get into waiting tables on a full-time basis. Being run off your feet all day, putting up with abuse from the kitchen, the manager and of course customers. And all for sweet f*ck all money. Toxic stuff.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭nc19


    Dildo tester


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭PLUG71


    Cop! No way!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭nc19


    Priest. I do not think I could live with myself - or sleep at night - if my living was made from selling lies to children.

    Some of the jobs listed on here so far would not bother me (working in a morgue for example) or I think I would positively enjoy (working on a farm for example).


    I would love to be a Priest

    id be the Fr. Jack kind though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭HomelessMidge


    An elderly carer. I just couldn't cope with that! I'd mop jizz all day long over changing nappys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    I've worked as a bouncer, in a slaughterhouse and also worked for years in industrial waste disposal in East London. To be honest, neither were as bad as you might make out and for where I was in my life at the time, I earned good money.

    1) Worked in the pig plant as a teenager in school and got paid savage money over the summer months. It was enough to keep me in Wham bars and flagons of cider* for the rest of the year anyway.
    2) Waste disposal in London for 2 years, allowed me to pay for 2 years rent for university as well as the capitation fee etc etc.
    3) Bouncing put me through college, €16 an hour and the absolute run of every place in town. Beat the sh*t out of making coffee or some other lark anyway.

    *these were needed to drown out the pain of presiding over a swine holocaust every day.

    I notice a lot of people said bouncing was one of their nightmare jobs. While it certainly had its downsides (dealing with drunken self-entitled bastards and degenerate violent scum) it had many upsides too. The money was quite good and if you're a sociable person like I was you got to meet an array of sound and interesting people both in terms of other staff and customers. It was also a very useful job for networking and gaining contacts/other sources of employment. It also offered a bit of buzz and variety from time to time, and if I'm being honest, that unpredictability was a draw for me. You also had a great sense of camaraderie and comradeship on the doors.

    Not to mention the fact if you're single you could be riding all around you. I was in a long-term relationship during my stint on the doors so avoided that entirely and as some of the lads learned, the type of woman who's going to jump the bouncer after 10 minutes of being in the club often isn't the type you'd bring home to Mammy. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Work in a factory that uses nuts, so KP is out. Also rules out catering and most shops too. Bit of a pain when i used to work in pubs they had to have no nuts nights.

    But apart from that chugger. Everything else i'd do, I might not like it and prefer something else but I'd still do it (or have done it)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Plenty of them I'd never do: chugger, priest, carer, nurse, social worker, politician (at least not one who'd have to be elected or open to the scrutiny of the tabloid press. I'd actually love a shot at some of the ministries but only on a fixed contract with total freedom to make whatever changes I saw fit to)...

    Luckily I've never been afraid of hard work and have the qualifications and experience to help me avoid such jobs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭AdolfHipster


    Ticket inspector on the luas


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭allibastor


    For me it would be working in a mortuary. The thought of being surrounded by a room full of dead bodies (and the possibility that one could come alive) freaks me out no end. The gassy noises they make too would scare the *bleep* out of me. Give me a job working in a rat infested, poo and urine encrusted sewer any day

    Fluffer.

    Or ride Joan Burton.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 296 ✭✭Kenpo


    My manager


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    gynecologist


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Flesh Gorden


    Door-to-Door commission only sales:

    I think it's more of a Cork/Dubln thing due to the population, but they've started springing up in places like Limerick and Waterford too.

    I spent a day with one crowd years ago out of curiosity as I'd a friend who got tricked into it by their vague ads for "no experience needed, high profile client sales"

    The reality though is that it's multi-level marketing that resembles a pyramid scheme in the long run where they first send you out on a day of observation along side a more brainwashed individual whilst they try and sell junk toys and shavers from a black gym bag, although most have now graduated to power companies.

    Every few weeks the thread on a current crowd gets bumped in the Cork City forum, and I've no doubts there's similar threads in the other regional forums but they often get deleted as they don't like the truth coming out about them and the comapny whose blueprint they all follow: DS Max ( < well worth a google)

    My own experience here: Link


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    Interesting that many people are saying slaughterhouse, that's what sprang to my mind as well. I'm guessing though you're happy that it's done, just not by you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    --LOS-- wrote: »
    Interesting that many people are saying slaughterhouse, that's what sprang to my mind as well. I'm guessing though you're happy that it's done, just not by you?

    I'd prefer if it wasn't done at all, but there is nothing that can be done about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    • Putting down perfectly healthy unwanted pets as a "pet home" employee.
    • Army rank: Private.
    • I have respect for both of these professions as a member of 'civi street'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    I'd hate to be the Guy that mops up the Jizz in Sexyland in Amsterdam

    22/25



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    uch wrote: »
    I'd hate to be the Guy that mops up the Jizz in Sexyland in Amsterdam

    I'd say they just let it dry in.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I'd say they just let it dry in.

    Scrape it off with a knife like you would burnt bits off toast, I'd imagine.

    I'd hate to be one of the poor bastards working the night shift at the Supermacs in Eyre Square.


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